Re: [PATCH 2/7] Define new syscalls readv2,preadv2,writev2,pwritev2

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 03:20:32PM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Milosz Tanski <milosz@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > New syscalls with an extra flag argument. For now all flags except for 0 are
> > not supported.
> 
> The blatant copy-n-paste of the vectored functions bothers me.  I'll
> withold judgement until I've seen your next version of the patch series,
> though.

We could actually implement the non-flags ones based on the flagged ones
at the syscall level, similar to how recv is implemented on top of
recvfrom.

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